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Encrypting sensitive data on Mac + Windows
I've been a long-time Windows user, using a utility called AxCrypt to encrypt sensitive documents which holded sensitive info (bank passwords, credit card numbers, etc).
I had an encrypted Excel ...
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Is there a signature-taking attendance app for iOS?
I have a hobby organization that records sign-ins on a weekly basis. I would like to find an app that allows me to take attendance and have each attendee sign that they were present, then be able to ...
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How To Record CPU and Memory Usage Data
I want to profile the execution of a program to see what in particular is slowing it down - whether it hits a memory cap or if my CPU is not powerful enough.
Activity Monitor (the one that comes with ...
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What iOS apps allow free calling to the UK?
I travel a lot, so often rely on WiFi for calling. On the iPhone, I use MagicJack to get completely free calls over WiFi/VoIP to US numbers. I'm looking for a similar app to enable me to call UK ...
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Huawei device pairing with Mac
I am trying to connect my Huawei phone to my Mac. I get it as a new device and I can see it in the file manager. Now I would like point my Mac to some drivers of this small Huawei device. (I have them ...
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Voice Modulator Software
I am looking for a voice modulator software that runs on OS X and converts a voice into scrambled and distorted sounding audio (like the ones in the movies).
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iPhoto 8 alternative
I kind of like iPhoto 8, but it's unmantained, is there an alternative that:
runs on 10.6
imports iPhoto library (events, albums, Facebook albums, hidden photos), and works more or less like iPhoto ...
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A calendar embedded in OS X desktop that allows me to cross off days I workout - does something like this exist?
I'm getting into an exercise routine and in the past I've found it helpful to cross off the days tha I do exercise on a calendar. It occurred to me that I spend far more time looking at my macbook ...
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Lightweight “sounds similar” radio app (OSX)
Is there a Mac app that offers one-click or one-keystroke access to a box where I type in a song, artist, or genre I want to hear "sounds similar" radio for (a la Pandora), hit enter, and listen?
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Which App saves and restores window size/position on relaunch of an app?
Is there an app that saves (when I quit the application) and restores the window size and position of an application the next time I start it?
I found apps like Optimal-Layout, Breeze and Simple ...
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Apply “Floating/Translucent Window” to all existing sticky notes?
If I have a large number of sticky notes on my desktop, each of which a varying permutation of "Floating/Translucent Window", is there a way to "Select All" stickies and apply the ...
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Does anyone know of a Crystal Reports viewer app for iPad?
Right now I am using Logicity on my PC. I would like to know if there is a way to see Crystal Reports files on iPad.
While there are ways to boot into windows and then run my file (use iTap / ...
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Any iPhone apps for fine-resolution mapping?
I am trying to record tracks at a much finer scale than is possible with GPS, but hopefully using something simple and cheap, ideally an iPhone. The resolution for track data I am after is around ...
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Darken Background Illumination When There is No Windows
I have a MBP in a dualscreen setup with the laptops display as secondary. I'd like to know if there is an application that dims the display's illumination when there is no window drawn on the laptop.
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Stanza replacement recommendation?
Now that Amazon has sunk the usability flagship among e-readers, Stanza, I am looking for a replacement but it turns out to be very difficult. It seems every app praises itself beyond reason. Every ...
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Are there any to-do-list-creating apps that allow for persistent task lists in Notification Center? Does Apple's iOS even allow for this?
Apple's iOS Reminders.app has the great functionality that it can list reminders in the Notification Center 24 hours in advance of the actual alert time. This is very useful, since it allows one to ...
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MSBuild project file bundle or syntax highlighting of msbuild files as xml
Is there an msbuild project file bundle for textmate? I've searched around and can't find one.
The msbuild project files are an xml format, is there a way to make textmate treat files with the ...
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iPad App — Mirror Video over Bluetooth?
I'm looking for a very specific iOS app. A universal app would be preferable, but iPad only would be fine. I'm looking for the ability to control one or more device's video playback from another ...
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Parental filter which blocks Tarot and other Black magic
I am searching for a closed source or open source (MacPorts) internet filtering which blocks Black magic (for example Tarot) web sites.
Very important that this also works with Russian language ...
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Are there any modern alarm clock software titles for 10.8?
I used to use Hanson's "Alarm Clock 2", and while it was good in that I could set alarms to only go off Monday through Friday, it wasn't very good about honoring 3 day weekends.
I was hoping to find ...
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Reading App for iPad with build-in translator
Reading articles in foreign languages is a good and fast way to perfect language skills and I am sure the same thing must have occurred to others before me as well.
I am searching for iOS app for ...
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Is there a good one hand typing Mac app?
Is there a (decent) Mac app that I could use to learn one handed typing?
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What SatNav software will run on an iPhone 3G?
I have an iphone 3G running iOS 4.2.1 (highest supported iOS for this phone). Is there any free/cheap SatNav software that will run on it? Navfree GPS looked good, but unfortunately requires iOS 4.3. ...
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How to stream audio and/or video to several iOS devices simultaneously?
Is there any app that allow me to stream audio, video (including YouTube and Vimeo) to iPhone and iPad simultaneously from a MacBook?
I've searched for this and I found an app called "AirPlayit" ...
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Is there a way to queue YouTube videos on iOS?
I've recently been listening to a ton of music on YouTube via iOS. I'd like to be able to start playing a song, go search for another song (while the other song is playing in the background), and add ...
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PostScript viewer for iPad
Are there any Postscript (.ps) viewers for iPad?
Secondly, having used Okular on Linux that can read .ps, .pdf and .djvu files, is there anything that does all three or more?
Finally, I am looking ...
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How to setup a Mac for kiosk mode video presentation?
My situation is: 2 iMacs (Lion), one displays a slide show and the other one a video.
If a user comes to the iMac and wants to play the video again, he should be able to play the video with one click ...
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Audio player that plays current buffer while downloading?
Looking for a Mac OSX audio player that'll start playing as it buffers, much like progressive download Flash/Javascript players do on Websites.
I have very large concert mp3s on my file server ...
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Display a dependency graph
I am looking for an application that allows to display a dependency graph, and the "entities" that are part of the graph.
Suppose I define the "task" entity; the software should allow me to define the ...
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Best client software for playing Go?
My son and I plan to learn to play Go together.
Internet servers like KGS for Go are quite active and common, but the usual CGoban client (written in Java) has various problems. I'm trying to avoid ...
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Full screen enabled ipad to windows streaming VNC
I'm streaming my windows desktop with Splashtop Streamer to my iPad.
However it doesn't support full screen windows apps. Are there any apps which does support full screen windows apps?
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Working with audio samples on an iPad
I'm looking for an iPad app that allows me to work with audio samples that I can later use in GarageBand (iOS) to create songs. The GarageBand audio sampler is useful, but its functionality is a bit ...
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Is there an iPad text editor that supports c and Objective C and has an elegant dropbox sync solution?
I've been using Textastic and the Obj-C support is great but the Dropbox connection is kind of like firing blind — there's not really a way to tell whether the server or the iPad has the latest ...
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Buying an used iPhone 5 - how do you make sure it is in top notch condition?
Is there a battery of tests I can make, in order to evaluate battery life, if calculations per second are all normal, signal reception... etc.?
Basically, just to test the condition of the phone.
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OCR under OS X with build-in OCR feature in Brother MFC-9840CDW All in One Printer
I own following multipurpose device: Brother MFC-9840CDW All in One Printer.
It does support direct OCR over Wi-Fi that can be initiated right from the onscreen display on device (scan -> send to -> ...
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Is there an app that allows custom keyboard shortcuts on iOS?
Is there an iOS app that uses allows a user to connect a bluetooth keyboard and then customize certain functions to certain key codes? For example, I would like to be able to create a custom function ...
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App that finds iTunes duplicates the Shazam way?
Is there an app that finds duplicate songs by comparing files by their content and not only title, author, ... Well as Shazam does.
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iOS Camera Roll File Names
Is there any way to change the default naming scheme IMG_XXXX to something with a date code in it? I know I can transfer them to my mac and change the file names, but that doesn't help me much when ...
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Native Vectromagic-style image-orthogonalization software for OSX?
I am stucked: I have a poor rasterized image. I have 10.7 OSx. How can I vectorize this image like with Vectormagic, dropping unnecessary basis vectors, and do small image manipulation?
My friend is ...
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iPad: app to categorize and search things by Tags and search-terms for Twitter?
I use Snapbird.org to browse old development-tweets but it is pretty time-consuming and laggy. Does there exist some app in iPad to make it categorize things automatically with tweets?
Example ...
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Alternative to Keynote with better typography options?
What software are people using on a Mac to create nice-looking presentation slides, notably, with custom drop shadows on text?
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How to read the same book together on many iPads?
I would like to open a book and everyone will have the same view of the book when I turn pages, I want to work with my friends as a team. It would be cool if everyone could add notices.
So how can I ...
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Real-time collaborative whiteboard app with pressure sensitivity
I'm looking for an app for Mac which can allow remote team members to have a shared whiteboard for real-time (or nearly real-time) collaborative drawing.
It must have pressure sensitivity (e.g. to ...
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Looking for iOS music player which includes all id3 information
I have open-ended tags stored in the Grouping field of my (iTunes) mp3 collection. I also have information written in the Comments field. A lot of my music is also BPM'd. How can I search by/sort ...
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Is there an IM client that will load my previous GMail chats?
I am looking for an IM client that supports loading my previous chats from GMail. Chax used to do this for iChat, but Chax doesn't work with Lion, nor does it work with Messages. Is there a client ...
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Integrating Hashcash into Mail.app
I recently came across a program called Hashcash. It looks interesting, and I'm thinking it might be fun to try it out and see if it has a noticeable impact on my workflow.
Are there any plugins or ...
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How to link one pdf to several others for use on iPad?
I want to use an iPad as an electronic 'Program' or Agenda for a conference. We would like to have a single document serve as the Agenda where one can open it, see the time and day of the ...
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SD card tools error on writting
I've got a 16 Go SD card and when I write on with my camera, at 80% or less, it's crash all data (an app like data rescue can find images), so I can use it at 79% (blindly). I think I can find the bad ...
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iPhone Video Web Streamer
I am experimenting with what an older iPhone 3G can do. It's a retired phone, but certainly useful! I'm hoping someone out there has the same thoughts I do:
Stream video FROM the iPhone 3G rear ...
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Finding iPad games that can be played over the internet
What is the best way to find new iPad games that can be played over the internet? (Not splitscreen, not bluetooth, not WiFi, only the ones that can be played over larger distances)
(I know there are ...
